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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 27, 2018
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Vedvyas Shanbhogue, Austin, TX (US);

Avinash N. Ananthakrishnan, Portland, OR (US);

Eugene Gorbatov, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Russell Fenger, Beaverton, OR (US);

Ashok Raj, Portland, OR (US);

Kameswar Subramaniam, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2018.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2019.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 1/3206 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44505 (2013.01); G06F 1/3206 (2013.01); G06F 11/3024 (2013.01); G06F 11/3409 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a processor includes a plurality of cores to execute instructions, a first identification register having a first field to store a feedback indicator to indicate to an operating system (OS) that the processor is to provide hardware feedback information to the OS dynamically and a power controller coupled to the plurality of cores. The power controller may include a feedback control circuit to dynamically determine the hardware feedback information for at least one of the plurality of cores and inform the OS of an update to the hardware feedback information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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